January 10, 2008
Budapest Christmas Lights
One will not be able to find it in one's heart to complain about winter in Budapest, even though it seemed to the rocket propelled tourist with camera in hand that the sun set at 3:30 PM, thus greatly inhibiting photo ops.
The folks at Budapest Town Hall have taken all that into consideration. Every municipal architectural jewel is ablaze with light, and tasteful Hungarian folkloric Christmas confections adorn the avenues, making a stroll after dark quite the visual spectacle .
Sadly, said rocket propelled tourist left her gorillapod on her kitchen table, and had to rely on lamp posts to steady her hand, which, as you can see, was only moderately successful. The delicate detail of tiny cascading white lights formed into uniquely Hungarian designs has been lost in translation to bloggish, but you can still get the idea.
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Photo note: as above -- other photographers had the same problem
as you can see